Letters and Politics
10:00 AM Pacific Time: Monday - Thursday
Letters & Politics seeks to explore the history behind today’s major global and national news stories. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – June 15, 2012
Dreamers Occupy Obama HQs in Oakland as Obama announces new immigration policies. Report from Cairo. Interview with Vijay Prashad. Update on CA Budget.
Letters and Politics – June 14, 2012
In 1838 the British East India Company amassed an enormous army and invaded Afghanistan. Four years later, in full retreat, Britain was handed the same fate as Darius the Great, Alexander the Great and later the Soviet Union. Today we’ll talk about what became known as the First Anglo-Afghan War with historian Diana Preston. But … Continued
Letters and Politics – June 13, 2012
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon testifies on Capitol Hill. William Black, former lead investigator in the S&L scandal of the 1980’s.
Letters and Politics – June 12, 2012
Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and a professor at Columbia University. Hosted by Mitch Jeserich.
Letters and Politics – June 8, 2012
Anthony D’agostino is a professor of history at San Francisco State University. In a new book called The Rise Global Powers, D’agostino explores why the major imperial powers over the last 100 years expand as far as they can until they collapse.
Letters and Politics – June 7, 2012
Economist Dean Baker on Fed Chair Ben Bernanke’s Congressional testimony. Carne Ross, former UK Diplomat, on the nature of power and diplomacy in a post 9/11 world.
Letters and Politics – June 6, 2012
A.G. Block on the CA primary results. Will Allen on Urban Farming. The play Aftermath.
Letters and Politics – June 5, 2012
John Nichols of the Nation Magazine on the recall vote of Scott Walker in Wisconsin. Adrian Burgos Jr on Latin America baseball players in the Negro Leagues.